- Are you satisfied with the daily brawl schedule? If not, how would you change it - add/decrease the number of time zones and their duration?
No. I do not launch into every type of brawl. What I would like to see is the rotation of the modes done on a constant basis, multiple times per given day. So the ones I prefer to launch into are available multiple times a day, instead of waiting for days to launch into the ones I prefer. Rotate each brawl, one hour per mode, then an hour wait time, rotate into the next brawl mode. This way would give everyone a chance to launch based on their own time zones, and launch into the brawls they like to fly in, and do so multiple times a day.
- Are you satisfied with the daily special operations schedule? If not, how would you change it - add/decrease the number of time zones and their availability?
These seem fine to me. I have no favorite mode for SpecOps and when I do launch into one, there always seems to be one available with Groups forming.
- Are you satisfied with the “Conquest” schedule? Availability of time zones, their total amount? Do you think that some of the time zones should be moved back in time for the player’s comfortability?
NO WAY!!! Conquest has ALWAYS favored Eastern European time zones, meaning there are 4 time slots per day, and 3 of them favor the east EU times where pilots are active prior to going off to work in real life or two that favor their times after returning home from RL work and in early evenings. Anyone else in the world has to skip a conquest because they are physically working or are sleeping or in the case of the western USA, right smack during dinnertimes.
There are 24 hours in a Day. There are 4 Conquests per day. The division should be as simple as 24 /4 = 6. One battle every six hours, in order to give everyone located around the World a fair and even chance of being in one or maybe two or three battles a day, without time conflicts. But that is not the case. If you examine the times now, the first sortie of the occurs, then a long break ( East EU is sleeping) and N/S Americas have have one battle where most of the continents have to stay up late or the battles are cutting into their dinner times.
Sortie two then occurs much later when East EU is just returning from home (late afternoon) and N/S Amers are asleep or heading off to work).
Sortie three again favors East EU, but AFTER their dinner time when all the kids are off to bed and a pilot has time. This is roughly mid mornings like 7-10am when minors are in school or older pilots are still in their physical jobs.
Sortie Four occurs later evenings East EU (but still not too late, like the wee hours of mornings) and the N/S Americas get a mid afternoon battle between 11am and 1pm, depending on where they reside, and most are still either in schools or at work.
Only maxed out SC Corporations with hundreds of pilots in every time zone around the world can even compete in Conquests. Smaller Corps only can battle in one or two timeslots at the most unless they stay up late or have Eastern EU members picking up those times that favor them.
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The change should be as simple as one Conquest, every 6 hours. Giving the entire World an equally divisible chance of battling in one or more Conquest and not the current of 3 battles when East EU is wide awake, and in their prime gaming time and the the rest of the world must work something out like a middle of wee hours morning battle when they may not even be awake yet or too tired to battle effectively
Personally, I can battle at any of the Conquest Sortie timeslots, but thats just due to my diverse time management of my personal life. But not everyone has that freedom, so those that dont, dont battle at all since they arnt living in the favored time zones.
- Are you satisfied with the “Portals” schedule? Availability of time zones, their total amount? Do you think that some of the time zones should be moved back in time for the player’s comfortability?
Again, this is very similar case to Conquests. I have never liked the assigned times for Portals. What I think should happen is this… PORTALS, what are they? They are random openings in space and time. So… Portal Battles should be just that. Random. No stated times or days. The portals open and close randomly so should the battles. Random Days and random times. Nothing assigned. If youre logged in when one opens…go for it… if not oh well. Thats the nature of a space and time Portal.
This type of randomness would not favor any given time, day or timeslot. So no Corporation could “plan” for it. If someone is lazy and doesnt check if one opened up from the Launch Window, theres no one to blame but themselves for not being diligent, getting a Wing formed and launching on the fly. Portals should be random, otherwise they are just another Conquest thats currently designed to favor a given timezone and those Corporations in that timezone. Randomize them. Its a time/space anomaly, so it cant be “scheduled” to occur…
